Alfio QuarteroniOf italian nationality, Alfio Quarteroni was born on May 30th 1952. He pursued his studies in mathematics at University of Pavia and at University of Paris VI. In 1986 he was nominated full professor at Catholic University of Brescia, later professor in mathematics at University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and professor in numerical analysis at Politecnico di Milano. He is designated full professor in 1997 and enters into service with EPFL in 1998. At EPFL, he teaches numerical analysis to engineers and mathematicians and holds specialized courses about mathematical modelling and scientific computing for master and PhD students. He had been scientific director of CRS4, plenary speaker of more than two hundred international conferences; he is member of the European Academy of Sciences, the Italian Academy of Sciences, the Lombard Academy of Science and Letters. He is Editor in Chief of two book series (MS&A and Unitext) by Springer, associate editor of 25 international journals. He has been plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians ICM2006. He had been responsible of several European research networks. His team has carried out the aerodynamic and hydrodynamic simulations for the optimization of Alinghi, the Swiss sailing yacht that has won two editions of the America's Cup in 2003 and 2007.
Bryan German Pantoja RoseroSince 2020 Doctoral Assistant at EPFL2016 - 2018 M.Sc. in Structures and Civil Construction, University of Brasilia, Brazil2014 - 2015 Specialist in Roads and Transport, National University of Colombia, Colombia 2009 - 2014 B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, National University of Colombia, Colombia
Xiaodong WeiXiaodong Wei is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Mathematics in Computational Science and Engineering at EPFL. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He also received M.S. and B.S. in Civil Engineering from The University of Tokyo and Tsinghua University, respectively. His research interests lie broadly in the interdisciplinary field of computational mechanics and computational geometry, as well as their applications in engineering design/optimization, computational neuroscience, and additive manufacturing. He has been organizing mini-symposia in international conferences to promote real-world applications of computational mechanics and geometry, and he has been awarded with several fellowships, such as Bertucci Graduate Fellowship, Liang Ji-Dian Graduate fellowship and CIT Dean's Fellowship.
Simon François Dumas PrimbaultSimon holds a PhD in the history of science from the joint programme of the European University Institute (EUI, Florence) and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, Paris). His doctoral dissertation focused on the drafts and working papers belonging to two natural philosophers of the second half of the 17th century – Galileo’s last disciple Vincenzio Viviani in Florence and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in Hannover – and could be described as a work of historical anthropology of knowledge.
By addressing the ink-and-paper materiality of these supposedly purely intellectual operations that scatter the mechanical and physico-mathematical papers of Viviani and Leibniz, he aims at seizing knowledge and scholars in statu nascendi. Studying closely down to the most subtle details of the activity of the scholars’ hands on the paper of their notes, and with the support of anthropology, history of art, literature, or history of emotions, Simon hopes to flesh out anew a historical epistemology too conceptual and positivist still.
